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remarks, inquiries, etc. directly to Nancy on the CNN website.EARLY LIFENancy Ann Grace was born in Macon, Georgia to a working-class family. As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college. However, after the murder of her fiancé, Keith Griffin, when she was 19, Grace decided to enroll in law school and went on to become a felony prosecutor and a supporter of victims' rights.CAREER AS PROSECUTORGrace worked for nearly a decade in the Atlanta-Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's office as Special Prosecutor. Her work focused on felony cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation and arson. Grace won nearly 100 felony cases at trial without any losses.
Grace decided to leave the prosecutors' office after the District Attorney she had been working under decided not to run for reelection.A law review member and graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, Grace received her Masters in constitutional and criminal law from New York University. She has written articles and opinion pieces for legal periodicals, including the American Bar Association Journal. Grace worked as a clerk for a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission. She taught litigation at the Georgia State University College of Law and business law at GSU's School of Business. As of 2006, she is part of Mercer University's board of trustees and adopted a section of the street surrounding the law school.CAREER AS BROADCASTERAfter leaving the Fulton County prosecutors' office, Grace was approached by and accepted an offer from Court TV founder Steven Brill to do a legal commentary show alongside Johnnie Cochran. When Cochran left the show, Grace was moved to a solo trial coverage show on CourtTV. In 2005, she began hosting a regular primetime legal analysis show on CNN Headline News in addition to her CourtTV show. On May 9, 2007, Grace announced that she will be leaving CourtTV to focus more on her CNN Headline News Program and charity work. She did her last show on Court TV on June 19, 2007.
The Foundation of American Women in Radio & Television has presented Nancy Grace with two Gracie Awards for her Court TV show.
OTHER WORK
Grace co-authored the book, Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System which was published by Hyperion on June 8, 2005.Grace has also helped staff a hotline at an Atlanta battered women’s center for 10 years.PERSONAL LIFEIn April 2007, Grace married David Linch, an Atlanta investment banker, in a small private ceremony. The two had met while she was studying at Mercer University in the '70s. Grace, who had given up on marriage after the death of her fiance said, "We've been in touch all these years, and a lot of time, we were separated by geography and time. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to get married. I told my family only two days before the wedding."On June 26, 2007 an emotional Grace announced on her CNN talk show that her life had "taken a U-turn" in that she is pregnant and is expecting twins with her husband in January 2008. On September 27, Grace announced the sexes of her twins, a boy and girl. Nancy Grace and her husband David Linch welcomed their twins, Lucy Elizabeth and John David on Sunday, November 4, 2007. John David was born at 1:54 p.m. ET and weighed 5 lb 1 oz (2.30 kg). Lucy Elizabeth was born at 1:55 p.m. ET and weighed 2 lb 15 oz (1.33 kg).Click Here to Visit the Nancy Grace Website
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